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Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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> The big benefit I see is being able to replace the lisp engine with a more
> standard one, and thus benefit from performance enhancements / bugfixes /
> etc from the other engine.

That's right.  Any change would be motivated by the desire to benefit
from other people's efforts w.r.t implementation of the language
and of its libraries.


        Stefan